>I can't possibly get less vacation than I have now. :)

:)

>I never liked C. I was a Pascal person. I wanted to work at Sierra because I liked playing the games. Nothing I ever actually made an attempt at.

Actually, the adventure games written while I was there were in SCI, a way cool proprietary OOP language. We were using SCI while every other company was just using C. So anyone with a good grasp of programming fundamentals could get a job at Sierra (if they wanted to move out here), because there were hardly any OOP programmers around at that time, anyway.

I was a "systems technologist" at Sierra between 1990-1995. If you played any Sierra games during that time, my name was probably in the credits. :)

>Is Sierra still in business? I haven't heard anything about them in a while.

Let's see. Sierra got bought up by CUC, which merged with someone else to become Cendant. Financial misdealings were discovered and the stock dropped from 40 to 9 (luckily my holdings are basically only souvenirs:). Sierra changed its name to Yosemite Entertainment, and the latest is that they're on the block for a buyer.

I'm doing help authoring for Dynamix, which Sierra bought in 1990. My current project is documenting a deer hunting game. :)

Aren't you glad you asked? :)